Jan. 22, 1862: Henry Adams, secretary to the American ligation for his father, Charles Francis Adams, Sr., Ambassador to Great Britain, writes to his older brother, Charles, Jr., an officer in the Union Army:
"We are sometimes anxious still and are likely to be more so. The truth is, we are now in a corner. There is but one way out of it and that is by a decisive victory. If there’s not a great success, and a success followed up, within six weeks, we may better give up the game than blunder any more over it. These nations, France probably first, will raise the blockade.
"Such is the fact of our position. I am ready for it anyway, but I do say now that McClellan must do something within six weeks or we are done. This war has lasted long enough, to my mind."
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